Two libraries at USC's University Park Campus were closed Sunday after a reported bomb threat. The libraries were declared safe following an LAPD investigation, according to campus police. Both ...

New Yorkers in almost a dozen neighborhoods will now have the opportunity to beat the Sunday scaries by picking up a good book. Starting this weekend, seven-day service will expand to 11 more public ...

A headteachers' union has dismissed a Plaid Cymru pledge to put libraries in all primary schools as "short-sighted" and a "red herring". Announcing the policy, Plaid education spokesperson Cefin ...

When B.C. Premier David Eby came to Grand Forks last year on the campaign trail, Cari Lynn Gawletz got his ear for a few minutes to chat about one of her passions: library funding. That $45 million ...

The members of the board of the Paul Smith Library in Shrewsbury faced a classic rock-and-hard-place situation. The library is currently what's called a member library of the York County Library ...

For the last five years, Michelle Coleman has attended cooking and culinary education classes in a light-filled teaching kitchen at her local library in Boston. The kitchen, designed for hands-on ...

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The 1000 Libraries Awards launched in 2023, to spotlight beautiful libraries and champion the written word in the digital age. The Library of Trinity College Dublin won the 2023 and 2025 awards based ...

So, you guided The Batter on his mission through the smoke mines in zone 1, beat Dedan to death, and moved on to zone 2. Things were pretty straightforward aside from the whole postal service thing, ...

Libraries have long been known as a place for shushing, where quiet was not only encouraged but enforced. But times have changed, and many libraries around the country are attempting to reinvent ...

There were 10,000 instances of book bans at public schools in the 2023-24 school year, according to PEN America. In 2024, 5,813 titles were challenged in public libraries and schools nationwide, says ...

Federal funding cuts are starting to hit U.S. classrooms in unexpected ways, not just through delays from the U.S. Department of Education but through the loss of grants from cultural and library ...